by John Suarez (612) 367-6845/ Janisset Rivero (786) 208-6056 – Center for a Free Cuba, September 29th, 2025, Washington, DC.
The Havana regime’s historical ties to drug trafficking and its role as an intermediary and coordinator in the hemisphere for drug trafficking into the United States have been presented in the report “Cuba: Precursor of the Cartel of the Suns. Drug Trafficking in the Hands of the State,” compiled by the Ibero-American Alliance for Global Security, the Cuba in Transition Association, and the Center for a Free Cuba.
The report has been sent to numerous organizations and entities dedicated to documenting drug trafficking and illegal activities, including the UN International Narcotics Control Board; the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime; the OAS Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission; the International Crisis Group; the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM); among other institutions.
“The Cuban regime’s connection to drug trafficking is well documented. There is an abundance of evidence gathered from court proceedings, defector testimonies, investigations, and historical records that detail the involvement of high-ranking officials and Cuban institutions—particularly the Armed Forces—in drug trafficking.” the report states:
“Drugs have served Castroism as a lethal weapon to damage American capitalist society, as corroborated by the testimony of retired Romanian general Ion Mihai Pacepa, who documented Fidel Castro and Ceaușescu’s plans during their visit to Havana in 1972 to flood the West with drugs to weaken capitalism. According to Pacepa, Castro told Ceaușescu that “drugs could do more damage to imperialism than atomic bombs.
From that date to the present, evidence of the Havana regime’s involvement in drug trafficking linked to the Colombian guerrillas, the control of Venezuela’s ports of entry and exit by Cuban military personnel to counter Plan Colombia, and the coordination of drug trafficking efforts in the region with other states such as Nicaragua with the Sandinistas under Ortega’s command and Panama during the Noriega regime, are based on direct testimony from former military personnel, former guerrillas, and drug traffickers prosecuted by the U.S. justice system, which directly implicates Cuba as a contact and support center for these illegal operations.”
“We support the international community taking direct measures to stem the flow of drugs into their respective countries and to curb the growing number of young people dying from drug overdoses. We must remember that Venezuela and Maduro bear significant responsibility for these criminal acts, but the driving force is in Havana, and the facts prove it,” said John Suárez, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba.”
PDF version of the report downloadable here: https://www.scribd.com/document/923479521/Cuba-Precursor-of-the-Cartel-of-the-Suns
SOURCE: Submitted by drug-watch-international@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of mlp3@starpower.net – 30 September 2025 01:04